Who Is Better Than Bowie

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Posted: June 23, 2015 02:42 pm

Ask me, so far as solo artists go, nobody beats Bowie. Inventiveness, uniqueness, longevity, intellect, performance, and best of all – the breadth of recordings. And there’s cause to celebrate with reissues perfect for the fans and would be fans (turn your kids onto some quality music?), including the new Five Years boxed set.

Five Years (the song), is significant for a number of reasons, including:

Being the opening song to David’s landmark 1972 album ‘The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars’.

Having been among the songs brilliantly performed by Bowie and Canada’s Arcade Fire at the 2005 Fashion Rocks concert in New York.

And it was the song title used for the BBC2 must-see documentary David Bowie – Five Years – The Making of an Icon in 2013.

September 2015, Bowie will come with a series of box sets that span his entire career. First up is Five Years 1969–1973. The box—12 CDs or 13 LPs—includes six remastered studio albums, two live albums, and a compilation called Re:Call 1, featuring non-album tracks and previously unreleased material from that period.

The six newly remastered albums include David Bowie AKA Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, and PinUps. The live albums are Live Santa Monica ’72 and Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture Soundtrack. It also includes the 2003 stereo mix of Rise and Fall.

The box also comes with a book featuring rarely seen photos and technical notes about each album. There’s also a foreword by the Kinks’ Ray Davies. Both Re:Call 1 and the 2003 Ziggymix feature new artwork featuring archival photographs. Track listings below. All things Bowie, from DavidBowie.com